Installation

QCG-Now may be easily installed on Windows, OS X and Linux computers. For the respective packages look into the Download section.

Installation on Windows

QCG-Now installer for Windows allows to install or update the program. It is straightforward and includes only several steps:

  1. Initial warnings. After start of the installer Windows will show some warnings regarding installation of the new/untrusted software. It is required to allow for the installation.
  2. Language selection for the installation.
  3. Destination folder. QCG-Now may require up to 250 MB of disk space.
  4. Shortcuts in Menu Start.
  5. Shortcut on the desktop and association of defined files’ extensions with QCG-Now.
  6. Summary of the selected configuration and start of the installation.
  7. Confirmation.

Installation on OS X

QCG-Now for OS X is distributed as a compressed QCG-Now-osx-*.tar.bz2 package. In order to configure the installation, the package should be extracted and from the bin directory of the extracted folder the setup.zsh file should be executed:

# bash setup.zsh

In order to run QCG-Now, the executable called QCG-Now from the unpacked directory should be used.

# ./QCG-Now

In order to simplify the usage, you can add the location of bin directory to the $PATH environment variable.

Installation on Linux

QCG-Now for Linux is distributed as a compressed QCG-Now-linux-*.tar.bz2 package. In order to configure the installation, the package should be extracted and from the bin directory of the extracted folder the setup.sh file should be executed:

# bash setup.sh

In order to run QCG-Now, the executable called QCG-Now from the unpacked directory should be used.

# ./QCG-Now

In order to simplify the usage, you can add the location of bin directory to the $PATH environment variable.

Note: When QCG-Now reports problems related to the lack of the ‘libpackager.so’ library please move the QCG-Now directory up in a hierarchy of filesystem and try to start the program again.